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Method for generating a graph lattice from a corpus of one or more data graphs

Active Publication Date: 2012-03-22
PALO ALTO RES CENT INC
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[0007]A document recognition system and method, where images are represented as a collection of primitive features whose spatial relations are represented as a graph. Useful subsets of all the possible subgraphs representing different portions of images are represented over a corpus of many images. The data structure is a lattice of subgraphs, and algorithms provided to build and use the graph lattice efficiently and effectively.

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An issue is the information captured by a feature.
Subgraph matching poses certain difficulties.
First, it is known to be exponentially expensive.
Nonetheless, subgraph matching has been limited to relatively small subgraphs due to a second difficulty.
This is that noise and variability cause observed graphs to deviate from ideal models.
This demands the use of inexact graph matching techniques, which drastically increases matching cost and largely removes the advantages of attributed graph matching because possible matches of differently-labeled nodes must now be explored.
Similar to image categorization, the difficulties noted with subgraph matching also pose problems for image retrieval and detection of repeated structure.
Namely, image noise and variability make it difficult to quickly and efficiently perform the matching necessary for carrying out said tasks.

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[0025]Large families of complex image features, in the form of subgraphs, can be built out of simpler ones through construction of a graph lattice (i.e., a hierarchy of related subgraphs linked in a lattice). By supporting large numbers of these feature subgraphs, image structure can be captured through exact graph matching. Thus, as will be seen, a graph lattice facilitates efficient graph matching notwithstanding image noise and variability, which advantageously facilitates efficient image clustering, classification, retrieval, repeated structure finding and novelty detection. The following systems and methods are described in the domain of rectilinear line art, specifically to address practical problems of document form recognition. However, it is to be understood, the concepts are applicable to images other than rectilinear line art, which are capable of being broken down into a set of primitives.

1.0 Overview of a Graph Lattice

[0026]The basic framework, called “graph lattice,” i...

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Abstract

A document recognition system and method, where images are represented as a collection of primitive features whose spatial relations are represented as a graph. Useful subsets of all the possible subgraphs representing different portions of images are represented over a corpus of many images. The data structure is a lattice of subgraphs, and algorithms are provided means to build and use the graph lattice efficiently and effectively.

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BACKGROUND[0001]The present exemplary embodiments relate generally to computer vision and more specifically document recognition which is an application for computer vision. They find particular application in conjunction with computer vision applications, such as clustering, classification, retrieval, and repeated structure finding, and will be described with particular reference thereto. However, it is to be appreciated that the present exemplary embodiments are also amenable to other like applications.[0002]Recent years have seen a surge in bag-of-words approaches to image categorization. Under such approaches, objects and scenes are modeled as large vectors of relatively simple feature measurements. An issue is the information captured by a feature. Features have traditionally been purely appearance-based features, which measure local shape and texture properties. However, a recent trend has aimed at extracting information in spatial relationships among features measurements sam...

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IPC IPC(8): G06T11/20
CPCG06T11/206
Inventor SAUND, ERIC
Owner PALO ALTO RES CENT INC
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